The Vision for Crookston condensed

I have a vision for Crookston and have been actively pursuing it. I believe we can do this with faith not fear.  My vision is for Crookston has seven parts:

1.  First do no harm, keep Crookston beautiful and recycle older buildings.

2.  Keep Crookston quiet and peaceful. Slow down traffic and see the store windows through diagonal parking and two-way traffic

3.  Encourage small businesses through incentives, bring tax dollars back into Crookston (Just passed: our State now offers historic tax credits! as well as the federal government. Thanks to Bonnie McDonald and the MN Preservation Alliance.)

4.  Bring people downtown through affordable housing, increasing events and UMC involvement.

5.  Our kids:  create the best schools ever

6.  Encourage Arts and Culture through a regional approach, advertise our low rents to artists in Grand Forks, Fargo,and the Twin Cities.

7.  Timeliness, Transparency and Democracy in government:  Extensive partnering.  Create meaningful work through  “C-bucks” trade dollars which will also create conversations across all income groups.

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The New Streets

Which picture do you like better?

"The groundbreaking manual for walkable urban thoroughfares jointly created by the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), "Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach," is a draft no more.The manual provides welcome relief from conventional design guidelines that prescribe wider lanes and faster speeds to move more automobile traffic, with almost no regard for the environment created for pedestrians or the ability of the street to support sidewalk commerce such as sidewalk cafes and storefront businesses." (1000 Friends of Minnesota website)

Lets make Main and Broadway diagonal parking as well as some side streets.